*headdesk*

[tim]

From a closed-forum reply to this link about casual misogyny and othering in the tech community:

"Why. WHY does this ALWAYS happen in CS courses??

In college my data structures professor used pictures of the following to examplify members of the class "Object", over and over again throughout the course:

A Lamborghini Diablo

A mug full of beer

A flat screen TV

Salma Hayek

headdesk"

(By the way, when I was majoring in computer science at a historically women's college? None of my professors used such examples. Just sayin'.)

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[puzzlement]

I made a sexist joke bingo card earlier this year, although undoubtedly there's enough excuses to make a sequel should anyone want.

[tim]

That is great, I'll be sharing it! I think that "sexist joke" and "heteronormative male sexual display in a space where female and/or queer sexual displays wouldn't be welcome" are slightly different kinds of fail that yield different sets of bogus excuses, but the sets definitely overlap.

[puzzlement]

That's true, but yes, some overlap indeed. (Sexist jokes on their own get less "but if I can't sexually display whenever the urge strikes, I will never get laid and the human race will die out!" for one. Sigh.)